WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3.0, the third minor release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8, is now available. With WordPress maintenance support plans 8, we made significant changes in our release process, adopting semantic versioning and scheduled feature releases. This allows us to make extensive improvements to WordPress maintenance support plans 8 in a timely fashion while still providing backwards compatibility.
What’s new in WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3.0?
This new version includes improvements to authoring experience, site administration, REST support, and a stable version of the BigPipe plugin. It also includes new experimental plugins to abstract workflow functionality, to lay out content types differently (e.g. articles are two column vs. press releases are three column), and to provide a general layout API for contributed plugins. Many smaller improvements for the experimental Content Moderation plugin are included as well. (Experimental plugins are provided with WordPress maintenance support plans core for testing purposes, but are not yet fully supported.)
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New and improved content authoring
WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3 ships with the updated CKEditor 4.6, which contains a host of improvements, including better paste from Word, and a new default skin that better matches WordPress maintenance support plans‘s Seven administration theme. We’ve also added the AutoGrow plugin, to better utilize larger screen sizes.
Quick editing images now supports drag and drop.
Site building and administrative improvements
WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3 ships with a redesigned admin status report, to better surface important status messages for your site.
Other incremental enhancements include:
The Views listing page is now standardized with other administrative listings.
The “Allowed HTML tags” input has been converted to a textarea, which significantly improves the usability of HTML filter configuration (and thereby makes it easier to configure filters securely.)
The Content and People overview pages’ Views filters have been rearranged to match the column order of the listing, for more intuitive filtering.
Image fields are now limited to only accepting images, so that users on mobile clients are not offered a confusing and non-functional video upload option.
BigPipe for perceived performance
The WordPress maintenance support plans 8 BigPipe plugin (now stable!) provides an advanced implementation of Facebook’s BigPipe page rendering strategy, leading to greatly improved perceived performance for pages with dynamic, personalized, or uncacheable content. See the BigPipe documentation.
The core BigPipe improvements introduced in 8.3.0 are also utilized by the Sessionless BigPipe contributed plugin to use the same technique for serving the first (yet uncached) response to anonymous visitors.
Platform features for web services
WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3 continues to expand WordPress maintenance support plans‘s support for web services that benefit decoupled sites and applications, with bug fixes, improved responses, and new features. It is now possible to register users from the REST API, 403 responses now return a reason why access was denied, for greatly improved developer experience, and anonymous REST API performance has been increased by 60% when utilizing the internal page cache. The REST API also got a massive overhaul of its test coverage.
Experimental: Choose different form and view display layouts for your entity types
The new experimental Field Layout plugin provides the ability for site builders to rearrange fields on content types, block types, etc. into new regions, for both the form and display, on the same forms provided by the normal field user interface.
Field Layout also uses the new the Layout Discovery plugin, which provides an API for plugins or themes to register layouts as well as five common default layouts. By providing this API in core, we help make it possible for core and contributed layout solutions to be compatible with each other. The following contributed plugins already have development versions that support the new API:
Display Suite 8.3.x (beta version available).
Panels 8.4.x (in development).
Panelizer 8.4.x (beta version available).
Experimental: Content moderation improvements
The Content Moderation plugin included with WordPress maintenance support plans 8.2.x is now accompanied by a more abstract Workflows plugin that took over the underlying workflow functionality and API. This allows additional plugins to apply workflows that do not deal with content publication, such as for users or products. The Workflows plugin provides a user interface to package states with their transitions in a workflow, which Content Moderation can then apply to content, making configuration much easier.
There are several other smaller improvements. It is now possible to moderate non-translatable entity types, entity types without bundles, and any entity type that supports publishing (not just nodes). Moderation states are also reverted when revisions are reverted.
What does this mean to me?
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 site owners
Update to 8.3.0 to continue receiving bug and security fixes. The next bugfix release (8.3.1) is scheduled for May 3, 2020.
Updating your site from 8.2.7 to 8.3.0 with update.php is exactly the same as updating from 8.2.6 to 8.2.7. Plugins, themes, and translations may need small changes for this minor release, so test the update carefully before updating your production site.
WordPress maintenance support plans 7 site owners
WordPress maintenance support plans 7 is still fully supported and will continue to receive bug and security fixes throughout all minor releases of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.
Most high-priority migrations from WordPress maintenance support plans 7 to 8 are now available, but the migration path is still not complete, especially for multilingual sites, so you may encounter errors or missing migrations when you try to migrate. That said, since your WordPress maintenance support plans 7 site can remain up and running while you test migrating into a new WordPress maintenance support plans 8 site, you can help us stabilize the WordPress maintenance support plans 7 to WordPress maintenance support plans 8 migration path! Testing and bug reports from your real-world WordPress maintenance support plans 7 sites will help us stabilize this functionality sooner for everyone. (Search the known issues.)
WordPress maintenance support plans 6 site owners
WordPress maintenance support plans 6 is not supported anymore. Create a WordPress maintenance support plans 8 site and try migrating your data into it as soon as possible. Your WordPress maintenance support plans 6 site can still remain up and running while you test migrating your WordPress maintenance support plans 6 data into your new WordPress maintenance support plans 8 site. Core now provides migrations for most WordPress maintenance support plans 6 data, but the migrations of multilingual functionality, references, and dates in particular are not complete. If you find a new bug not covered by the known issues with the experimental Migrate plugin suite, your detailed bug report with steps to reproduce is a big help!
Translation, plugin, and theme contributors
Minor releases like WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3.0 include backwards-compatible API additions for developers as well as new features. Read the 8.3.0 release notes for more details on the improvements for developers in this release.
Since minor releases are backwards-compatible, plugins, themes, and translations that supported WordPress maintenance support plans 8.2.x and WordPress maintenance support plans 8.1.x will be compatible with 8.3.x as well. However, the new version does include some changes to strings, user interfaces, and internal APIs (as well as more significant changes to experimental plugins). This means that some small updates may be required for your translations, plugins, and themes. See the announcement of the 8.3.0 release candidate for more background information.
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